At a meeting with representatives of ISPs and the Austrian regulator on lawful interception of IP based services
held on 25th June, high-ranking officials at the Austrian interior
ministry revealed that it is not a problem for them to listen in on
Skype conversations.

This has been confirmed to heise online by a number of the parties
present at the meeting. Skype declined to give a detailed response to
specific enquiries from heise online as to whether Skype contains a
back door and whether specific clients allowing access to a system or a
specific key for decrypting data streams exist.

As to Skype. The cops said: "It is not trvial but we can intercerpt skype meanwhile". This way they burnt another pseudo argument of their superiors. Until he left office in May former minister of interior Guenther Platter had whined over and over again publicly - that they were not able to monitor skype.

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